Levant Report | 6 Aug 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG3j8OYKgn4?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting the West’s backing of an Islamic State in Syria when it came across his desk in…
VT | 30 July 2015 A century on from the Armenian Genocide, is Turkey attempting to repeat history? repeat history? [ Editor’s note: We reproduce here a fascinating article that lays bare the hidden Masonic and Zionist forces that shaped the modern state of Turkey while murdering millions. Hopefully this article will help our readers…
NEO | 27 July 2015 It’s hardly a secret for anyone that the United States and Saudi Arabia are longtime partners, hence Washington has historically been the guardian of Saudi interests in the Middle East. These special relations between the states were built back in the 1930s, when in exchange for security guarantees that were…
Discovering Islam | 2012 Khomeini’s Background & His British Father With all bets off, the Iranian reformers have now struck at the heart of the revolution and are insisting on an inquiry into the disappearance of Imam (Ayatollah) Musa Sadr, some 25-years ago, during a visit to Libya. The Iranian-born leader of the Lebanese Shia, Imam…
Middle East Eye | July 24, 2015 Britain has actively contributed to the creation a humanitarian disaster in Yemen, and potentially helped turn the Middle East’s poorest state into the new Syria. Not hyperbole or rhetoric, just a bald statement of fact. I’ll leave it to others to try to explain the near total silence…
The Independent | 4 May 2015 It amazes me that all these warriors of the air don’t regularly crash into each other Let me try to get this right. The Saudis are bombing Yemen because they fear the Shia Houthis are working for the Iranians. The Saudis are also bombing Isis in Iraq and the…
Global Research | 19 June 2015 With tensions in the Asia-Pacific region, war in the Middle East and NATO’s military build-up on Russia’s doorstep, World War III seems like a nightmare scenario coming true. Below are insightful articles on the fragile situations prevailing on every corner of the globe and their possibly disastrous implications. Towards…
Julie Lévesque | Global Research, May 28, 2015 “Create Constructive Chaos” and “Redraw the Map of the Middle East” Newly disclosed Pentagon documents prove what we’ve known for a while now: the Obama administration knew as early as 2012 that weapons were being sent from Benghazi, Libya, to rebels in Syria. The U.S. government also knew…
Robert Fisk | 28 May 2015 For Arabs – and for Britons who lost their loved ones in his shambolic war in Iraq – Blair’s appointment was an insult Tony Blair’s time as Middle East envoy representing the US, Russia, the UN and the EU has finally come to an end. Eight years after he…
The Daily Beast | 10 May 2015 Ever since the overthrow of Egypt’s elected president, the U.S. administration has tried to avoid the word “coup.” Hard to do that now, but it’s still trying. Pity the poor dictators! What’s a dedicated bunch of military plotters to do when they learn the elected leader they overthrew…